Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, a new weekly discussion that searches for the truth about psychiatric prescription drugs and mental health care worldwide.

This podcast is part of Mad in America’s mission to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care. We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change.

On the podcast over the coming weeks, we will have interviews with experts and those with lived experience of the psychiatric system.

Thank you for joining us as we discuss the many issues around rethinking psychiatric care around the world.

This week on MIA Radio, we
interview Professor Sir Robin Murray. Professor
Murray is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in the Psychosis
Service located at the Bethlem Royal Hospital in South London. He
is also a Professor of Psychiatric Research at the Institute of
Psychiatry. His research covers epidemiology, molecular genetics,
neuropsychiatry, neuroimaging, neuropsychology and
neuropharmacology.

Professor Murray’s main research
interest is finding the causes of schizophrenia and bipolar
disorder, as well as developing better treatments for these
disorders.He is perhaps best known for helping to establish the
neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia, and for his work on
the environmental risk factors relating to schizophrenia, such as
obstetric events and cannabis use.

In 2011, Professor Murray was
awarded a knighthood for services to medicine and he is the second
most widely cited psychiatrist in the world outside the
USA.

In this interview we
discuss:

•How Professor Murray came to
psychiatry and what sparked his interest in research into
psychosis.

•Professor Murray’s work to
counter the concept of schizophrenia as a debilitating brain
disease and how we came to appreciate the many factors that may
contribute to psychotic illness.

•The importance of recognising
the influence of social factors in the causes of psychotic
illness.

About the Podcast

Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, a new weekly discussion that searches for the truth about psychiatric prescription drugs and mental health care worldwide.
This podcast is part of Mad in America’s mission to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care and mental health. We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change.
On the podcast over the coming weeks, we will have interviews with experts and those with lived experience of the psychiatric system. Thank you for joining us as we discuss the many issues around rethinking mental health around the world.
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To contact us email podcasts@madinamerica.com